In 2013 a two-year project, ‘EuroHRN II: Supporting Innovative Measures to Address the Reduction of Drug Related Harm in Europe’, funded by the European Commission, was launched by Harm Reduction International (HRI). As one of the implementing partners, Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN) was responsible for the implementation of ‘Workstream 2’ – the ‘I am the evidence’ campaign – raising awareness of overdose while encouraging pan-European collaboration and information-sharing on overdose prevention.

This report comprises a comparative analysis of legislation, statistics and public health responses to opioid-related overdose in Scotland, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Estonia and Lithuania, as well as recommendations for adoption of good practice policies including collation of documented best practice.

There were several of them, country representatives, all active and positive, even maximalist in their approach towards the naloxone issue in their homeland, determined to turn the world upside down at a wink of an eye. I have seen people getting aspired to act and bring changes in the system many times, and yet I was surprised by the will sparkling in their eyes to actually GO and DO things. I did not want to turn them down by saying that this might not be that simple…